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But why stop there? What's the difference between Microsoft, Google, Meta, and OpenAI in this regard? All of those build their models based on the same sources
by qayxc 4y ago
But why stop there? What's the difference between Microsoft, Google, Meta, and OpenAI in this regard?
All of those build their models based on the same sources and it's therefore a much more general issue than just one particular company being sued.
- tpush 4y agoI mean, yeah.
- jacquesm 4y agoThat's a good point, but the subject of the thread is Microsoft. I'm pretty sure that Google will happily train their models on the contents of your Gmail account, I wouldn't trust Facebook with my birthdate and OpenAI is likely doing the exact same thing. But that doesn't make it right in this case and, conveniently, someone has decided to bring suit. The funny thing is that Microsoft depends on Copyright law for their existence and now they want to change the rules to favor them when it suits them. In fact one of the first things that Bill Gates ever did that I remember is bitch about people copying the software that he wrote.
- marcosdumay 4y agoGoogle and Meta aren't redistributing your code claiming that it's theirs and that you can re-license freely.
- pjmlp 4y agoOnly because they arrived later at the party.
- jacquesm 4y agoHm, I don't know about that. I think they do plenty of stuff with other data that crosses that same line but they have not crossed it with (explicitly copyrighted) code, and until they do I don't think we should argue that if they had been there before that they would have done it, they had ample opportunity.
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